Ouch! My Very Own Red Nose! (Comic Relief)

Member Name: witchwaysup

Product:	Comic Relief
Date:	13/03/01 (51 review reads)
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Advantages: Fun and Funny

Disadvantages: Ouch! Not for Adults!

This year's red nose is both a triumph and a disaster of a design. For anyone who has not yet seen one, let me say I think the look of the design is great. A bright red nose that is also a cheeky face with a protruding tongue that blows a raspberry when tweaked.

Bearing in mind that the vast majority of these nose wearers are kids they have hit on a winner two ways. Firstly the designers have recognised that smaller people (kids) tend to have somewhat smaller noses than us (so-called) grown-ups. Secondly they have recognised that 99% of kids like whoopee cushions, and what better excuse for buying a product that makes a rip-roaring trouser-splitting fart sound? It had to be a jolly good idea!

Only one problem (the disaster bit), sometimes us adults like to enter into the spirit of things and we might like to wear these noses too.

Having a petite nose, I thought the most likely problem with trying a red nose was that it would be too big as previous models, and fall off. Not so! My nostrils were clamped firmly down and the only way I could breathe was through my mouth. As an asthmatic I felt the nutty red nose was too claustrophobic and have had to forget wearing it.

Why oh why didn't they produce a kids size nose and an adults size one? Perhaps they want those of us daft enough to try wearing the nose to go around for weeks afterwards with a red nose for real?

Anyway, I'm just having a whinge. All in all this is a charity that deserves our support in any way we can give it, and if that means I have to use my red noses as cat toys, then so be it!

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